It is 17 miles 17 chains (27.7 km) down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Cheshunt and Roydon.

The station and all trains serving it are operated by Greater Anglia.

Broxbourne station was officially opened by the Northern and Eastern Railway on 15 September 1840.

Therefore, for a short period of time Broxbourne was the terminus for the line which ran up the Lea Valley from Stratford Junction, where it joined the Eastern Counties Railway.

The original station building was demolished in 1959 and replaced with new buildings designed by H. H. Powell, of the British Railways Eastern Region Architects' Department[4] with T. Rainier as the Project Architect.